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From a rare behind the scenes tour of the Rijksmuseums enviable ship model collection, via a dramatic D-Day diorama and an exquisite Navy Board model, to the reconstuction of and ancient Egyptian sailing vessel, Shipwright 2013 marks the journals 40th anniversary with a rich variety of highly illustrated and authoritative articles by experts from a number of countries.

Shipwright encompasses the full range of ship modelling subjects, types and scales. This year they include a 1:32 wind-powered, radio-controlled HMS Royal William, a 1:192 cutaway model of the clipper Flying Cloud, and a French tuna boat. The 2013 Modellers Draught is the collier Coalisland.

Reflecting majot changes in technology comes a fascinating account of the process of accurate 3-D virtual ship modelling to create the computer generated images used in books, films and documentaries.

The publication of Shipwright 2013 coincides with the opening of the Rijksmuseums first ship model gallery, and this edition opens with the Curator of Ship Models, Jeroen van der Vliet and the retiring conservator, Ab Hoving.

Contextual articles are an established feature of the journal. Richard Endsors account of the construction of the Restoration warship HMS Hampton Court informs Philip Reeds description of the building of his highly accomplished model, while Dr Daniel Nolan provides the historical backdrop against which Lloyd McCaffreys equally impressive Flying Cloud sails.

Shipwright 2013 concludes its eclectic content with a review of the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, words from the winner fo the Conway Sail Prize, and its familiar extensive Book Review section.

Front cover: A fine midel of the Polacre Daedalus from the recently reopened collection of Amsterdams Rijksmusem.

Forecastle and deck details from Philip Reeds model of the Hampton Court 1678 featured .

Conway, 2013
First published in Great Britain as Hardback and eBook in 2013 by Conway,
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eBook ISBN 978-1-84486-241-2
Hardback ISBN 9781844861606

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Trevor Copp

Retired dental surgeon Trevor Copp lives on Jersey in the Channel islands, where he works part time in the summer for Jersey Heritage in diverse roles that include emergency repairer of thatched roofs. His modelling interests used to include Gauge 1 live steam and radio controlled gliders, but for the past ten years he has modelled solely ships, and has donated three to Jersey Maritime Museum. He specialises in enhancing kit models, with the aim of bringing new modellers to the hobby. Among his other interests he includes flying sailplanes, flying on shopping trips to France, singing and lifesaving.

Malcolm Darch

Malcolm Darch served his apprenticeship with a prestigious timber yacht builder on the River Hamble, and spent ten further years in that industry, building and repairing yachts including that of former prime minister Sir Edward Heath. When taxation crippled the industry during the 1970s he turned to full-time ship modelling, working to commission. His models, which span the previous four centuries, have been sold to private collectors and museums across the world. His most recent completion, The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers ceremonial livery rowing barge of 1656, was unveiled in September 2012 at the livery companys London hall. He is currently working on a four-and-a-half-year commission to build Nelsons HMS Agamemnon of 1781. He lives at Salcombe, working from a studio overlooking the sea.

Richard Endsor

His international engineering career spanned the production engineering of air compressors and the writing of computer programmes for the aerospace industry until he returned to England and established himself as an independent supplier of engineering data to the aerospace industry. Much of his spare time has been devoted to researching 17th century ships and shipbuilding practice. The result was The Restoration Warship (Conway, 2009), which received a Certificate of Merit at the Mountbatten Maritime Awards 2010. His paintings have been exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and he is currently working on a book about Restoration fourth rates and helping with a project to build a full size replica of Lenox at Deptford.

John S Laing

John Laing is a retired Merchant Navy officer from Sydney, Australia, who has been building ship models for about twenty years. He is an amateur naval historian and a volunteer model maker at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney who is interested in and builds models of ships of all periods.

Lloyd McCaffery

Lloyd McCaffery has been a scale ship modeller since the 1960s, and his 3.5 inch model of HMS Prince, with each of its 100 guns bored out, achieved a world record price for a contemporary ship model when it sold in 1990 for $100,000. He specialises in miniature scale and in intricate carving, and is the author of Ships in Miniature. Although best known for his ship models and figureheads he has also produced highly detailed miniatures as diverse as the Wells Fargo Stagecoach and anatomically correct dinosaur skeletons. He lives in Colorado.

Dr Daniel Nolan

At the age of ten Daniel Nolan went on a short trip in a currach (a traditional Irish craft with hide stretched over a wooden frame), which engendered an enduring love of the sea. A retired medical practitioner living in his native Ireland, he is a keen yachtsman and sailed a Contessa 32. In 2011 his book